Hi everyone,

I am a survivor of a bilateral pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis. Last year by the end of September i began having a pain in my calf. I thought i've pulled a muscle, but i knew something was wrong and went to the Emergency Care. They did a Doppler and found the blood clot in my leg. They only treated me for the blood clots in my right leg. A week after i was discharged from hospital, i had trouble breathing and had anxiety attacks. I also had like stabbing pains in my back. It was during this time I tried to commit suicide. I drank an overdose of sleeping pills and when my sister came to visit, they found me on the bed but i did not respond. They took me to the hospital and they first emptied my stomach and then they did some tests and they found the bilateral blood clots in the lung. In the months leading up to this i was very depressed. My father died last year the 6th July 2016 and i was admitted 3 times to a psychiatric hospital for bipolar and Schizo Affective disorder (I think that's how it's spelled. Hope i got it right). It was not the first time i got admitted to the hospital. I was admitted by the end 2015 when my depression started. I was put on medication and used it for 3 months after which the councillor told me that the psychiatric pills will only make things worse. She told me to watch videos of Breggin (I think that's his name) as he knows all about the effects of pills. Well, i threw away the pills and in June last year had a psychotic episode and was admitted to the psychiatric hospital where i stayed for a week. I was put back on medication and my meds were as follows: Zoxadon 4mg, Epillim 600mg and Dormonoct sleeping pills. My family said that it was my own fault i got the blood clots in my leg and lungs as i was not very active. I slept most of the time. I did some research and they did a study where they found that people that use antipsychotic meds have a higher risk of developing dangerous blood clots. I told my doctor but she said that the medication actually thins the blood. At the moment I am stable and it's been almost a year since i've been admitted to the mental hospital. I take Wellbutrin 150mg daily and i feel this medication helps me a lot. My next doctor's appointment is in October so i hope when i see my psychiatrist everything will be fine. I was admitted for a second DVT in February this year. At the moment i don't have any pain in my leg and I wear a compression stocking. I sometimes do get depressed and cannot sleep at times. This affects me a great deal as my work is not as good when i did not have enough sleep. The doctor says i need to stay on the blood thinning medication Xarelto for another 4 months then i am going to switch over to Ecotrin 81mg aspirin. I feel a bit scared to go off Xarelto, but I think it's going to be fine. Has anyone in this group changed from an anticoagulant to aspirin?